The Grand
ASEAN Tour 2027

The tour begins in Southeast Asia's most kinetic city. Ho Chi Minh City is 24-hour energy - markets, street food, colonial architecture and the Mekong Delta on the doorstep. Two nights here give you the War Remnants Museum, the Cu Chi tunnels and the Ben Thanh night market before the tour heads to the coast.

Ho Tram sits 150 kilometres east of the city on a pristine stretch of South China Sea coastline. The Bluffs Ho Tram Strip is Greg Norman's masterpiece in Vietnam - a genuine links layout routed across coastal dunes where the wind comes off the open ocean. Two rounds here and two nights at the resort before the group flies to Cambodia.

Cambodia's capital is one of Southeast Asia's most underestimated cities. The Royal Palace and the Silver Pagoda sit in immaculate grounds above the Tonle Sap River. The National Museum holds the finest collection of Khmer sculpture on earth. The riverside is lined with restaurants and bars that look out over the confluence of the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers. One round at a local course and a cultural day built around the city before the short hop north to Siem Reap.

The reason every golfer should visit Cambodia. Angkor Archaeological Park is one of the wonders of the world - hundreds of temple complexes spread across 400 square kilometres of jungle, built by the Khmer Empire between the 9th and 15th centuries. The group visits at sunrise, when the reflecting pools mirror the towers in the morning mist, before 100,000 tourists arrive.

Angkor Golf Resort sits in the shadow of the temples - literally - and plays alongside ancient irrigation channels and heritage structures. Two rounds here, two nights in Siem Reap, and a proper guide through the Angkor complex before the flight to Hanoi.

Vietnam's capital is a thousand years of history visible in the street plan - the Old Quarter's 36 craft guilds still mapped in the alley names, the Hoan Kiem Lake at the city's centre, the Temple of Literature and the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. Two nights here with a round at a local course, then one night on a traditional junk boat in Ha Long Bay, where 2,000 limestone islands rise from the Gulf of Tonkin.

Ha Long Bay does not photograph the way it looks in person. The karst formations appear out of the morning mist and change shape as the boat moves through them. This is the off-the-course experience the group will talk about as much as any round they play.

The final chapter and the best golf of the trip. Da Nang and Hoi An sit on the greatest concentration of world-class courses in Southeast Asia. Three rounds across five days, including Ba Na Hills (Asia's Best 5x) and the farewell round at Montgomerie Links on the coast. The Hai Van Pass. Hoi An Ancient Town at night. A farewell dinner at Montgomerie Links as the South China Sea turns gold.

This is where every thread of the 18 days comes together. By the time the group sits down for the farewell dinner, they will have covered five countries, played nine of Asia's finest courses and seen Southeast Asia in a way that very few people ever do.